dark fire

() "Strange, it seems that quite a few professionals have already passed by here."

Li Huo looked at the many chaotic footprints on the ground, feeling puzzled, and said to Angela in doubt.

"Obviously there are professionals who have passed by, why do the latecomers continue to follow the places cleaned by the predecessors?"

Angela also felt that it was a little hard to understand.

Li Huo and Angela's doubts were not without reason.

Someone passing by in front will naturally kill the monsters one by one. For these professionals who gain experience points to increase their level by killing monsters, if they follow the path walked by others, they will definitely not be able to find any monsters. Not wasting time.

Time is money, time is experience, and time is equipment.

Why did Li Huo and Angela ask such questions.

It turned out that after Li Huo and the two entered the forest, they walked towards the place written on the map, the tree of Inifus, while being cautiously on guard.

The tree of Inifus, known as the holy tree, should be in the center of this dark forest according to what is written on the map. The two of them still have a long way to go to find this tree. Along the way, you will meet many monsters.

In this forest, there are towering giant trees above, and thick leaves and fertile land below. These leaves have fallen here for an unknown number of years.

After all, before the invasion of hell, this was a primeval forest, and few people would go to this forest in normal times. Basically, they came here to cut down trees, and no one wanted to enter this deep forest.

When human beings walk through such fluffy leaves, where the accumulation is deep, they will naturally leave a lot of footprints.

If no one continues to walk over time, the falling leaves will naturally cover these footprints.

But Li Huo and Angela found a lot of various footprints. These footprints were very clear, indicating that someone had just walked by them and they hadn't been there for a long time.

In other words, not long ago, many people passed by here.

A team can only have a maximum of eight people. This is what Li Huo learned from Joni when he was chatting with her. From the footprints here, there are at least dozens of hundreds of professionals passing by here.

It is absolutely impossible for a team to stay.

As for saying that other people are protecting an important person, it is even more impossible.

From the depth of the footprints, it can be seen that the level of these professionals cannot be too high, and should be about the same as Li Huo.

Why can you tell the level of a professional by looking at the depth of the footprints?

Don't forget, the woman in white that Li Huo saw, as a level 21 assassin, could actually keep her feet off the ground. Maybe she has her own reasons, not everyone can do it.

But judging from Arthur Dia's behavior, professionals of their level should not leave too deep footprints if they pass by here.

As for professionals over level 40, that's completely different.According to Joni, after level 40, professionals can temporarily break through the attraction of the earth, soar into the air and fly a short distance in the air.

And when Li Huo and Angela walked here, the depth of the footprints left by them was almost the same as those in front of them, indicating that these people should be of the same level as the two of them.

"The direction of travel of these people is towards the central yang of the forest. What secrets does this central yang of the forest hold?"

Li Huo shook his head extremely slightly, while analyzing to himself.

"An Qi, how about we follow and see what these people are going to do."

Li Huo was determined to pay attention, but he still turned his head and asked Angela. He must not be too arbitrary. Respecting the opinions of his teammates is the correct way to unite the team.

"Okay, captain, I'm also a little curious."

The current Angela has changed from before. I don't know if it is because she is very familiar with Li Huo, or because she risked her life to save Li Huo, which touched her heart. It is not special for her to get along with Li Huo. Shy, occasionally able to speak his mind.

The Dark Forest seems to be smaller than the Stone Field or the Frozen Plain, but the difference in area between them is not particularly obvious.

There are tall forests here, and the dense branches block people's sight. Although there is no fog during the day, it is still quite dark.

Not to mention the night, the surroundings are pitch black, covered by endless thick fog, if you don't have the light attribute on your body, it may be difficult to move here.

And the boss in this forest, Tree Wooden Fist, is not easy to mess with.

Like the blood crow, this tree-head wooden fist is also a loyal subordinate who was captured by hell and transformed into a loyal subordinate because of its good aptitude. However, it is not Diablo's subordinate, it is the demon king Andariel's subordinate.

The person who captured and transformed it was naturally tormenting Queen Andariel.

Before being caught, it was the king of this dark forest, and what it needed to protect was the Inifus Tree.

So when its projection appears here, it still has to guard the tree of Inifus.Its projection just stayed under the tree of Inifus, and would not go there. Any professional who came here would be attacked by it.

Li Huo and the two quickly followed the path that the previous professionals had walked towards the center of the dark forest.

At the beginning, because these monsters were all killed by the previous professionals, Li Huo and Angela walked very fast, and it didn't take long for them to cover two-thirds of the distance.

However, after a night's rest, new monsters appeared again.

Li Huo and Angela could only walk slowly, cleaning up the newly spawned monsters on the road.

Finally, the hard work paid off. After Li Huo and Angela rested for another night, they finally arrived at the center of the forest at noon on the third day after entering the dark forest.

"Wow! What is this!"

When Li Huo and Angela walked into the dark forest and stepped into the center, suddenly two bright lights flashed in front of them. source of light.

Of these two beams of light, part of the white light came from the sky, and the other part of the golden light came from the central yang position.

This place is not as Li Huo imagined, the central area is full of big trees.

To Li Huo's surprise, there were almost no trees in the entire central area.

Compared with the dark forest behind which is almost the shadow of trees, there is only one tree within a thousand meters in diameter in this central area.

Due to the existence of only one tree, although this tree is considered very tall, it cannot cover all the space, so the sun naturally shines from the top of the head.

Since Li Huo hadn't seen the sun for a few days, it was normal for him to be dazzled by the sun suddenly.

But this towering tree with golden light surprised Li Huo very much.

"Is this the tree of Inifus? It's really spectacular!"

Li Huo was a little shocked. Li Huo seemed to be able to see such a shocking scene only in some special effects productions.

A big tree exuding soft golden light all over its body stood upright in front of it.

The hundreds of meters high tree trunk made Li Huo almost break his neck before he could see the top.

The trunk of the big tree is more than 20 meters in diameter. Standing here, it looks extremely majestic.

On the trunk, countless branches stretch out in all directions.

But on these branches, there is not a single leaf.

No wonder the sunlight can be cast down, without the barrier of leaves, just the branches, no matter how dense they are, cannot completely block the light.

This kind of soft golden light envelops any branch of the entire Inifus tree, which looks very magical.

Both Li Huo and Angela were shocked by the sight in front of them, but they were not the only two of them here, on the contrary, they could be regarded as the last team of professionals who arrived here.

"Haha, Li Huo! You guys have arrived here!"

A familiar rough voice sounded, awakening Li Huo from his amazement.

He lowered his head and looked forward. More than 200 professionals around the tenth level were standing or sitting under the tree in front of them. With the team as the center, they formed groups after groups. Each group was separated from other groups. They all kept a considerable distance, which showed that they were not in a friendly relationship with each other.

For the other teams around them, they all have a strong sense of competition. The atmosphere among them is not good, but it is not particularly tense.

Li Huo saw the strange paladin Raja who was waving constantly in front of him at a glance, and then saw Tom smiling at him and the beautiful and charming assassin sister Annie.

"Angela, let's go there."

After Li Huo scanned all the professionals around him again, he greeted Angela behind him and walked towards Tom's team.

Raja's voice was so loud that it was really incomprehensible. With his roar, more than 200 professionals here all looked at where Li Huo and Angela were.

Hearing Raja's address, the crowd started to stir up a little.

"Li Huo? Which Li Huo is it? Is it the so-called most talented professional this year?"

"Look, it's him, the mage, even the nuns seem to want to recruit him."

"It should be true. It is said that there is always a silent female paladin following him. The female professional with her head bowed, wearing a golden ponytail, and wearing the standard uniform of a paladin is the same powerful paladin. knight."

"It's him? This time seems to be a little troublesome. The competition is already fierce enough, but now I'm afraid there is another hope."

"What are you afraid of? This time, it's not about who has the greatest potential or who is more talented. This test is about comprehensive ability."

"That's true, but even so, this competition is still much bigger than the previous few weeks."

"I can't help it. I just happened to meet this time. Everyone works hard. Anyway, there are three places every time."

"I have to work hard. If it doesn't work this time, I have to wait until next week. No matter where the progress is, I have to find time to turn back. This slows down the progress of the team too much."